Paul mccartney new book biography on person

The British writer Philip Norman, whose comprehensive new biography, Paul McCartney: The Life, is out Tuesday, admits he "used to share the perception of Paul as someone who was blessed with such amazing gifts that he must be pleased with himself."

But then Norman came to realize that the living rock legend is "also insecure...He's in his 70s now, and he still thinks he has to prove himself virtually every night onstage." In fact, McCartney launched a new tour, "One On One," in April.

Born 10 months before McCartney, Norman, 73, was "thought to be anti-Paul" for a long time, he says.

He met McCartney, briefly, as a rock journalist covering the Beatles in 1965. In 1981, Norman published Shout! The Beatles in Their Generation, which generated some criticism for "its over-glorification of (John) Lennon and bias against McCartney," as Norman writes in The Life, adding, "Paul himself hated the book, so I heard."

So imagine Nor